Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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... mind , abftracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or lefs agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , sweetness , faintnefs , or roughnefs of their tones . These are but faint beauties , being known ...
... mind , abftracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or lefs agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , sweetness , faintnefs , or roughnefs of their tones . These are but faint beauties , being known ...
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... mind . A smooth gliding found is agreeable , by calming the mind , and lulling it to reft : a rough bold found , on the contrary , ani- mates the mind : the effort perceived in pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers , who feel in ...
... mind . A smooth gliding found is agreeable , by calming the mind , and lulling it to reft : a rough bold found , on the contrary , ani- mates the mind : the effort perceived in pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers , who feel in ...
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... mind , fuch a number of objects , and in fo fwift a fucceffion , as by fpeaking or writing : and for that reafon , variety ought more to be ftudi- ed in these , than in any other fort of compofition . Hence a rule for arranging the ...
... mind , fuch a number of objects , and in fo fwift a fucceffion , as by fpeaking or writing : and for that reafon , variety ought more to be ftudi- ed in these , than in any other fort of compofition . Hence a rule for arranging the ...
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... mind and double the pleasure ; * but where the impreffions made by the thought and the words are diffimilar , the unnatural union they are forced into is difagreeable . † This concordance between the thought and the words has been ...
... mind and double the pleasure ; * but where the impreffions made by the thought and the words are diffimilar , the unnatural union they are forced into is difagreeable . † This concordance between the thought and the words has been ...
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... mind , and affords no time for a folid impreffion . I illuftrate this rule by giving examples of deviations from it . Hones alit artes , omnefque incenduntur ad ftudia gloriâ , jacentque ea femper quæ apud quofque improbantur . Cicero ...
... mind , and affords no time for a folid impreffion . I illuftrate this rule by giving examples of deviations from it . Hones alit artes , omnefque incenduntur ad ftudia gloriâ , jacentque ea femper quæ apud quofque improbantur . Cicero ...
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